Barack Obama, Inauguration | featured news

President Obama's public swearing-in ceremony and parade may have been full of pageantry, but the inauguration wasn't much of a draw on television. About 20.6 million people tuned in to watch as Obama repeated his oath for a second term at the U.S. Capitol on Monday, according to Nielsen, the TV ratings company. That's way down from the nearly 37.8 million people who watched the nation's first black president take office in 2009.

Beyonce used a pre-recorded voice track to perform her rousing rendition of the national anthem at President Barack Obama's inauguration, according to the U.S. Marine Band....

The text of President Barack Obama's inauguration speech today at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Monday is President Barack Obama's big day, but memories of Martin Luther King Jr. will loom large over the festivities.